OpenAI launches deep research as an autonomous web-research agent
OpenAI launched deep research in ChatGPT, an agentic capability that independently searches, analyzes and synthesizes hundreds of web sources over five to thirty minutes for complex knowledge work.
TOWARD DOOM62confidence 97/100
Why it moved the index
The launch deployed a multi-step browsing agent that can operate independently for tens of minutes and produce professional research work, materially extending consequential digital autonomy and knowledge-work substitution. Its underlying o3 variant is not treated as an exact model checkpoint.
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- R1Toward 62 · confidence 97
New February 2025 autonomous-agent deployment with no durable canonical, title, fingerprint or substantially identical event collision.
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